TIDAL WAVES
DESCENT ON LINER ATLANTIC HURRICANE r LIST OF 28 INJURED DEVOTION OF SURGEON BROKEN ARM IGNORED B? Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received January 29, 6.55 p.m.) ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK. Jan. 28 Three mountainous tidal waves, believed to be caused by a submarine earthquake in the mid-Atlantic, descended successively on the liner Duchess of York last Tuesday, smashing gear and injuring 25 of the crew and three passengers. The tidal "waves followed a hurricane during which the passengers were ordered to remain in their state rooms. Towering waves descended over the bridge and "buffeted the vessel like a straw. While treating a seaman for a broken rib, the ship's surgeon, Dr. Morton, received a fractured arm. Another seaman is believed to have a fractured skull.
The remainder of the injured were treated by Dr. Morton in spite of his own injury.
The Ca.nadian Pacific Railway Company's lirter Duchess of York is a steel, twin-screw, oil-burning, steam-turbine vessel of 20,021 tons. She was built in 1929 by J. Brown and Company, Limited, Clydebank.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21712, 30 January 1934, Page 9
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172TIDAL WAVES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21712, 30 January 1934, Page 9
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